WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Wasted Opportunities 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:13.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Well Cowboys, this is 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:20.160 Talking Cowboys, springing live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters. 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:20.720 At the Star in Frisco. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:29.280 Puts take Burgers here plus dot Tis twenty touchdown and now. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:36.640 Your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.640 It is the Monday after a twenty seven point outing 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.720 from your offense, but a thirty point outing from your defense. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.320 The Dallas Cowboys fall to the Carolina Panthers thirty to 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.800 twenty seven in Week six of the NFL season. Welcome 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.680 into Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, the 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.160 official coffee of the Dallas Cowboy. We're gonna talk about it. 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:05.200 What happened on the East Coast. Both of these guys 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.319 were there, Patrick no Cy Walker, Tommy Yarsh, We've got 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:09.080 Chris beat in the back. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.039 He was there as well. I'm Kyle Yeoman. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.600 So glad you're with us, and thank you for tuning 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:15.920 in the Monday after because I know it's always frustrating 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.040 following the Cowboys loss to listen to Cowboys content. I 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.680 understand I'm a born and raised Cowboys fan. I grew 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.480 up cheering for this team, and when they lose, I 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:28.880 am in a worse mood. 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:30.560 That's just plain and simple things. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.919 You can ask my family. You can ask my parents, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.399 my wife. You can't ask my kids yet because they 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.440 can't tell you, but at some point they will. They're aware, 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.520 they are aware, and this was just another of two 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.880 straight losses. Let's just say that the last two losses 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.760 have been in the embarrassing category, and this is a 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.400 second one. In that case, nothing against the Carolina Panthers. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.560 Their game plan was there, their execution was there. All 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.520 the flowers in the world. Rico Dwell he stood on business, 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.240 and I commend him for doing that. A team that 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.919 did not stand on business is currently here. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.240 In Dallas and their nickname is the Cowboys. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.880 So with all that being said, Patrick, I'll open the 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.480 floor to you, Cowboys fall thirty to twenty seven, your 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.760 thoughts from being there on site at Bank of America Stadium. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.760 You know, Beemer. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.960 We might as well just title this this episode wasted. Wasted. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.480 You had a career record center GTA, Yeah, yeah, exactly, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.760 So when you play GTA. For those that don't know 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.400 grand theft auto. When you meet your demise, what pops 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.359 up on the screen is wasted. Appreciate That's exactly the 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.760 vibes right now, exactly the vibes. You wasted a career 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.639 record setting performance from George Pickens. He now has six 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.519 touchdowns through the first six games, first NFL player in 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.720 a Cowboys uniform to do that since the merger who 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.560 was not named Daz Briant. You wasted Hunter Lipke's first 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.920 career touchdown. You wasted contributions from Jake Ferguson and Ryan Flanoy. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:07.200 You wasted a three touchdown zero interception effort from Dak Prescott. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.840 You wasted an opportunity to go for go ahead touchdown 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.080 with two passes behind the line of scrimmage. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.040 We will get to that later. You wasted an opportunity 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:16.800 on fourth. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.840 And four to get the ball back for a mulligain 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.720 on your offensive side and a possible game winning drive. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.320 You wasted a chance to gain ground on the Eagles 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.240 in the division after they lost to the New York Giants. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.600 You made everyone want to go home and pull a 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.000 full Gucci man and get wasted. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:36.440 Ah. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.520 So, however you slice it, that is the vibes today. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:44.840 Yesterday's game was one the Cowboys should have won, and 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.360 should have won handily, but they constantly allowed the Panthers 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.840 to hang around, and in doing so, they ended up 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:57.240 with the l defense outside of the Donovan Wilson interception 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:58.400 and the twenty one yard return. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 That was the highlight of the day for the defense. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.120 You need it more. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.880 They couldn't stop the run. You said, Rico, he stood 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.920 on business. Cowboys were unbuckled. Hmmm, completely. They did not 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:10.520 buckle up. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:12.680 They did not buckle up. Rico had a day. 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:16.360 Now he is now the first NFL player that has 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.039 gone that went undrafted in the history of the league 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.920 to have back to back two hundred plus scrimmage yards games. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.000 So the Cowboys will forever be tied to Rico Dawdle 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:26.559 in the history books. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:26.760 Now. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.840 So, yeah, wasted, just like GTA five and just like 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.400 when GTA six drops wasted. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.640 Well, you know, you guys mentioned that you're both Cowboys fans. 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.400 I'm the only one at this table that's not a 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:41.600 Cowboys fan. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.159 I don't really root for anybody. I just cover the sports. Yeah, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.240 it's for me to be impartial. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:48.960 That was bad. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.040 That was very bad. I mean, I think Patrick hit 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.839 the nail on the head for most of it. You know, you. 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.159 Essentially, what we figured out about this team six games 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.720 into the season is if their offense does not play 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:09.080 perfect football and score on just about every possession, they're 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.279 going to lose. And that is wildly unfair to Dak 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:17.240 Prescott and Brian Schottenheimer and everybody who was trying to 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.040 move the ball downfield offensively. Now, I'll say this to 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.680 the offense did not help themselves by not establishing the 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.920 run game. They were very poor in that, and I 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.800 think it started up front. I think Javonte Williams had 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.320 a couple of plays that he didn't exactly read very 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.960 well and shot the wrong gaps. But you got a 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.920 credit Carolina their defensive front, Derek Brown. Those guys did 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.640 a really good job of nullifying a lot that Dallas 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.800 was trying to do. They one thing they'd done really 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.720 well is having their guards pull and move, and they 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.159 just took it out of the equation and they filled 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.120 where they needed to be and they did a really 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:52.920 good job against that. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.760 So it was difficult. 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.800 And then obviously, you know, defensively, I mean, Bryce Young 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:02.840 is just having a field day and Rico Dowdell's having 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.840 a field There have been three players three times this 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.880 year where a player has gone for over two hundred 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.760 scrimmage yards in a game, and two of them are 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:12.400 from Rico. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.000 Down in the last two weeks. So props to Rico. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.360 I always enjoyed Rico when he was here. Happy for him. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.880 I mean, that's that's super super cool to see him, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.880 you know, do that after I think very evidently by 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.880 his comments last weekend this week, I think that he's 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.080 you know, he felt disrespected when the Cowboys said, hey, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.400 we we maybe like this Drafonte Williams guy over you. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.040 Was that the right decision? I guess we can we 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.520 can talk in retrospect. I think Davonte Williams has been 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.400 a really good player for this team. I just think 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.280 he didn't have a great game. But you know, you 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.120 look at the NFL leading rushers and man, how fast 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.440 did Rico Dowdell jump up jumps quick to the to 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:56.440 the front of the line there. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.320 Let me, I'm trying to see exactly how long, but uh, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.120 you know, he's. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.440 Already third now by he's four yards by Javonte Williams 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:05.760 and he's played like three games. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.080 So Gretto Rico, he's. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.600 Playing really well and Carolina is a team that was 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.840 in need of a win like that. But man, you 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:20.760 think about how wildly different the outlook for this season 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.320 would be if they come out of this game of 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:24.960 the win. They're setting at three to two and one, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.760 and they've got Washington coming up next week. If if 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.160 they were able to win that game, then not only 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.240 do you get to four wins early, but you get 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.480 a foothold, not a foothold really, but a stronger stance 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.920 in the division. With the Eagles loss to the Giants, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.320 like you mentioned, so this is a game that they 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.680 needed to win. I mean every game he needed to 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:49.320 win in the NFL. But this is a league that 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.160 may have the most parody that this league has had 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.640 in a long time. You look across the board and 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:57.840 Dak Prescott was talking about it. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:58.400 Ever of the game. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.040 Any given Sunday, any team can beat another team, and 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.680 it's it's what makes this game super fun. But for 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.080 Cowboys fans, it's understandable to watch a lot of what 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.400 happened yesterday and say, man, you. 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.600 Just can't, you can't let some of this happen. 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:20.000 It also makes this game extremely frustrating, and that's why 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.120 Patrick's holding up a sign that says this is why 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:26.000 my other sign exists talking about the one that says 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.840 this does not imply that the Cowboys will win the 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.520 Super Bowl. All of that being said, I think you 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.160 pointed it out great. Dallas did not establish a run, 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.320 so it's not all on the defensive side of the ball. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.520 I thought Ashawn Robinson dominated the offensive line. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:39.719 Yep. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.199 Derek Brown dominated the offensive line. We kind of expected 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.040 Brown to do so, but Robinson was a little bit 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.320 of a shock. The offensive line gets two of their 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.679 starters back, Tyler Guyton, Tyler Smith. The left side of 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.160 the offensive line is whole again, and you feel very 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:53.319 confident in doing so. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.000 They didn't have a great game. They did not play well. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:00.800 The offensive line struggled to set the ground game initially, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:02.800 and it also struggled. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:03.840 The block for Dak Prescott. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.559 Dak had to escape a couple different times to allow 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.320 plays to develop. I mean, I thought, I mean there 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.560 was a couple of times in the first half, especially 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.360 where Dak rolled out of the pocket. I said, my goodness, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.960 like that pocket collapsed quick, yep, and he was able 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:21.920 to still make a play. Dak is playing extremely good football, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.400 extremely good. I don't want to put a tag on 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.679 at the MVP caliber stuff. We'll talk about that as 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.199 we keep going. But to harp on that every week 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.520 is one thing, But to just say you're playing good football. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:32.160 He is. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.040 He's playing tremendous football, and for him not to have 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.679 a winning record at this point in the season is 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:40.079 extremely disheartening. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.000 We'll give you some stats that back that 'll wasted, okay, 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.360 since starts were first treck This is via Todd Archers 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.480 Shots Talk. Since starts were first trecked in nineteen fifty, 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.240 Dak Prescott is the first quarterback to have eleven or 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.560 more total touchdowns with zero turnovers and a non winning 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:03.560 record over a three start span. M GB not great, Bob, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.120 don't give you one more. Dak Prescott in his last 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.640 three games seventy four to one oh three, seventy two 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.760 completion percentage, eight hundred and seventeen passing yards, ten touchdown, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.760 ten passing touchdowns, with one rushing touchdown, no interceptions. Dallas 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.600 has scored one hundred and four points in those three games. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.760 They won, one lost, one tied one defense. What the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.200 hell are you doing out there? Hell are you doing? 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.920 Yeah, it's a it's a frustrating scenario. Like I said, though, 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.000 it's not all on the defense. The offense did not. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.160 Play well from it, not all round games from the 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:37.800 offensive line. 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:39.640 It's on the coaching as well. With that. 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.960 As much as we love shot, he's play calling. Yeah, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.360 that last offensive position, it was bad. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:46.520 Terrible, it was bad. 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:47.079 To stop it. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.240 The I want to talk about the defense though, because 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.680 as much as I want to harp that the passing 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.320 game was working, George Pickens was great, Jake Ferguson made 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.559 an impact. Again, you still don't have Cede Lamb or 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.400 Cavante Turpin and you were still able to move the 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.400 ball through the air. The ground game, we talked about 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.959 it defensively. Where do you point your finger? Where do 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.319 you point it right now? If you're the defense, because 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:14.240 I still hang my hat on. You've got to finish pressures. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.320 You got to get some level of pass rush. Dallas 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.240 had zero pass rush against the Carolina Panthers offensive line. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.560 Let me say that again. The Cowboys had zero pass 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.600 rush against the Carolina Carolina Panthers. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.120 They were offensive line zero. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.000 I mean, they did not play well at all on 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:34.600 the edge last yesterday. 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.079 Well, I'll see your question, Kyle, and I'll ask you 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.079 a better question follow up, not at quow not a 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.880 better question. Wrong, I'll ask you and to add on 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.840 question because that was a phenomenal question. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.160 Where is the blame not placed. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.480 On the defensive side of the ball because they couldn't 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.839 get the pass rush. Yeah, they couldn't stop the run. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.000 Your linebackers played very poorly. Yeah, they did play bad. Okay, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.880 and your secondary when you look at your safety. So 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.120 it was such a mercurial game for Donovan Wilson. You 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.600 get the interception in the twenty one yard return, which 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.839 then sets up Dak Prescott in the offense to put 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.240 points on the board, but not long thereafter, your eyes 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.439 get caught in the backfield. You had one assignment, which 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.120 was Teed McMillan on that particular play in the red zone, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.000 and you let Teed McMillan get behind you. You peeled 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.920 off because you thought there was pressure on Bryce Young. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.800 It doesn't matter if there was pressure back there or not. 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.000 That's not your responsibility to keep your eyes out of 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:28.600 the backfield. 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.640 But that goes to what you myself, Josh and Isaiah 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.320 have said. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.560 You're talking about when Donovan sank down. When he sank down, See, 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.839 I thought he was looking at that that over. I 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.280 felt like he was because because Ted McMillan or T 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.000 mack or whatever he wants to be called, took a 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.000 quick burst inside and then he went right back outside, 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:51.960 put a foot in the ground, and he changed directions, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:52.720 and it just went. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.400 We'll go back and look at it. Either way it was. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.960 I thought he was sinking on that en route, sinking 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.040 or eyes in them. Either way, either way, don't peel 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:02.920 off tip. But you're not supposed to bite if you're 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:04.679 the two high safety. I mean, it was a two 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.480 high safety shell. And if you're not gonna go down, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.839 or if you're not gonna if you're not going to 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.720 have help underneath, you leave it there so that way 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:13.680 you can go and pursue and. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.280 Make a tackle. As a turning back around and trying to. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.960 Cover goes back to the to talking Cowboys. His main 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.640 point when it comes to Donovan Wilson is that utilization. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.319 His utilization is not the fit is not there. You're 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.720 asking him to cover, but he's eternally going to want 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.839 to crash down eternally that was a perfect example of that. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.400 So that's example of the secondary lack of pass rush 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:40.360 ted McMillan's second touchdown of the day, Sam Williams have 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.679 Bryce Young, Dad, the rights take you take Bryce Young 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.439 down on that play. It's no touchdown, but you didn't 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.360 he side step. He steps into a throw tech McMillan 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.000 back of the end zone wide open again. So, Cal 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.719 you make a great point with the question where's you know? 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.480 Where do you blame what he plays? To blame on defense? 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.880 My answer is yes, you placed it on all three phases, 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:03.000 all three levels. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.600 I should say, I think you're right, But in my opinion, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:10.599 this is a football in general. Any level is a 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.040 line of scrimmage game. If you can't win it the 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.400 line of scrimmage, more often than not, you are going 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.120 to lose. Yeah, that's what the Cowboys are doing right now. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.280 In the run game. 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:22.960 The last coming into this week, they were third. They 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.920 gave it the third and most rushing yards in the 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.560 league in weeks four and week five, and then they 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.240 do what they did against ric o' dawdle, And you 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.640 know the in this game, they only had two run 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.000 stuffs all game, and one of them was from Reddy Stewart. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.840 If your nigkel corner has half of your run stuffs 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.600 in a game, that's not good. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.560 That's not good. It's not good. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.640 And Solomon Thomas had the other one. So you know, 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.440 this is a This is a team that has really 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.520 really struggled the last couple of weeks after I thought 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.440 they were okay to start. They weren't great, but they 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.800 were okay considering what they've been in the past. You 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.360 take okay over bad any day of the week, and 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.440 they've kind of reverted back to okay. They're just not 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.360 really not really playing the run very well. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:09.840 And so you start with that. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.080 And if you can't stop the run in today's NFL, 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.000 it's already difficult enough because then that opens up the 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.240 play action game and guys have all day to throw. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.400 And why do they have all day to throw? Because 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.040 you don't have a pass rush. You don't have a 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.360 pass rush. And you know, I've seen all this talk 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.560 on Twitter of oh, well, if they had Michael Parsons, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.520 then you know they this would be a much better defense. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.440 I really don't think it would be. I don't think 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:34.720 it would. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.320 They have a better pass rush, absolutely, and does that 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:41.720 fix some of the problems. It doesn't matter if Freakodal 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.240 is going to run for two hundred yards on you. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:44.560 It doesn't. It just doesn't. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.800 So you know, there is blame across the board defensively, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.400 but I think it starts up front on the defensive line, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.280 because if you can't stop the run and you can't 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.480 get pressure on a quarterback, it doesn't matter if you're 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.760 playing Bryce Young or whoever the quarterback is at South 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:58.280 Lake Carol. 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:00.400 He's pretty good quarterback. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.560 They're undfeet Is he really there? 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.960 You go shout to Riley Dodge because that's on hundred 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.440 wins coach that that they're just going to have a 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.880 field day on you, and it's it's exactly what happens, 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.200 and this happened in this game. And then well you say, okay, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.760 well then let's look back at the Jets. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:17.920 Why did why did that work? 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.800 Well, they didn't stop the run particularly well, but they 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:22.760 had a pass Rudd. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.240 Those sacks, they had five sacks and they had one 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.880 sack on bra I don't know. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.480 The utilization piece is just going to bug me to 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.600 death because Donald is one thing. And that's why I'm 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.400 not placing it all on Donald he's got it. He's 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.240 got to stick to his assignment. So I do place 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.080 portion of that on him, but again misutilization, But then 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.640 sometimes that's fair and he's got to learn if he's 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:50.120 going to Half of it is on him, absolutely. The 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.040 other half is on eber Flus. Another thing that's they's 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.640 blame to go around right, Another thing that's Onlu when 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.240 it comes to utilization. Look at the fourth and four 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.440 which ended up being the nail in the coffin the 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.120 fourth and four throw by Bryce Yield. Yeah, so at 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.119 initially when you look at the steel photo pre snap, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.080 you're going to get pissed off because you're going to say, 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.280 why the hell is your all pro cornerback who's proven 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.080 that he can be physical because he came into the 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.200 league and he played nickel for you ten twelve, one 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:18.800 million yards back of Hunter renfro. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:19.960 So that's the stillest. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.800 If you're going to the sticks, you're going to the sticks, 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:24.640 and here's talk talk. 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.600 I've got I've got a text thread and talk to him, Barry. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.879 I know what would be fine with me? Yeah, we'd 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:31.240 be fine. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.080 I sent him a couple of those screenshots from last night, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.440 and this was after postgame. So we had talked about 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.440 it on post game and then I sent him some 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:44.280 more stuff. Barry said the play him meant. There was 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.040 debate on Twitter. Let's back it up. There's debate on 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.040 Twitter whether it was Kenneth Murray at fault because he 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.680 didn't get over in time. 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.520 To cover Murray taken after year of. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.560 The field, Murray was trying to get over to get 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.040 there instead of the blame being on Dron Bland. Darron 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.080 Bland had outside leverage prior to the snap. When we 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.480 were watching the game, Isaiah Stanback, who's not on the 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.399 show today, said why are you playing outside leverage on 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.800 fourth and four? Why are you playing outside leverage on 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.760 fourth and fourth? Why are you playing outside leverage with 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.879 cover zero on fourth and fourth. This was prior to 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.240 the snap, so before the snap even happened. A former 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.680 quarterback who was on Good Morning Football this morning was 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.560 looking at that play and saying, that's where the ball 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.280 should go because that's where the disadvantages for a guy 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:31.040 like darn Blaine. 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:33.639 And that was before he backed out. Then he backed down. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.399 He said, why are you backing up? Why are you 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:36.879 backing up? 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.679 And then Barry Church chimed in and I asked him 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:41.320 after the fact. I was like, do you think Murray 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:43.560 was at fault or do you think Bland was at fault? 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.240 And he said he may have been told to play 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.320 back de Ron Bland because the play was coming to him, 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.800 and or because Murray was coming over to him, but 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.040 not ten yards deep. On fourth down and four, he said, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.320 at the worst, his heels should be at the sticks. 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.000 Talking about de Ron blaant, you should not be eight 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.800 to ten yards back behind the line of scrimmage, if 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.359 even if you are getting help from Kenneth Murray. So 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.639 Kenneth Murray did his best. He took a step and 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.119 tried to get that direction and almost broke the bats up. 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.520 He was about a foot and a half away. But 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.600 to blame Kenneth Murray, there is one thing to say, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.280